Edile

Annual magistrate in ancient Rome, having charge of public works and buildings, also of markets and police duties. Edæology. Science of generation and the generative organs. Ædogoniaceæ. Order of small fresh-water Algæ, very comnion in pools and streams. IMG:content-0050.jpg:[graphic] Ægates Islands. W. of Sicily; here the Cart hag in i an fleet was vanquished by the Roman, Mar. 10, 241 B.C. Rome obtained Sicily and 3,200 talents as tribute-money. Ægean Sea. Grecian Archipelago; part of the Mediterranean between Greece and Asia Minor. Egidius, St., or ST. GILES, ab. 640-720. Monk of Greek birth; founder of a monastery near Nimes, ab. 673; patron of cripples. His day is Sept. 1. Ægidius Colonna, 1247-1316. Italian schoolman, "Doctor Beatus"; Abp. of Bourges 1296. Ægin a. Island s. w. from Athens. The Argive Pheidon was said to have established a silver mint here ab. 862 B.C. Its inhabitants were expelled by the A then i ans 429 B.C. Æginidæ. Family of Trachymedusa, with flat discoidal umbrellas, whose digestive cavity has large flat pouches instead of radial canals; the circular canal is solid. The genital lamellæ lie in the radii of the manubrium. Ægis. Brazen shield of Jupiter, made by Vulcan; symbolical of divine protection. Minerva also had one, in the center Minerva, from statue in the Villa Albani, Rome. of which was the head of the Gorgon Medusa. In art representations, the Ægis is the breast-armor or corselet of the godde , is covered with scales or plates, and bears the Gorgon's head.